With True Believers 2018 less than two months away, we put 5 Questions to Dan Butcher...

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

Apart from the Tony, Vince and myself, you'll be able to pick up prints, purchase sketch commissions, get your hands on book one and two of VANGUARD and pick up a copy of the ACP Anthology, which will include work by myself, Nick Prolix, Tony and Vince. My part of the anthology will be used to tell the story of Project: VYPER. Think 1980's super vehicle TV shows with a dark, humorous twist.

What do you love about creating comics?

What I love about it comics is the fact they are all inclusive, any one can make one and tell any story they wish. We can see fantastic ideas and concepts playing out in comics that just aren't tackled in any other medium. The fusion of art and writing, and that moment when it 'clicks' together, is what really makes comics special for me.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

The hardest part for me, by far, is translating what characters say into believable speech. It's a tricky skill and one that I feel many have an issue with. The practical sides of comics, the art, is probably what I find easiest to do as I came from a art/design background.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

Without a doubt, it's meeting other creators, speaking to listeners of the ACP and talking to fans of the comic. Seeing the creative efforts of others is something I find really invigorating and I love trading stories with fellow creators... and when fans of the comic pop along and chat about VANGUARD, well that just makes my day!

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

This is a tricky question. There's such a massive wealth of great comics out there by small press creators, I'd feel bad for recommending one over another. If pushed, I say off of the top of my head - PERRYWINKLE by Susie Gander is excellent, as is anything the RECKLESS HEROES boys put out.

You can find Dan online at his website and stop by his table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

With True Believers 2018 less than 2 months away, we put 5 Questions to Jed McPherson...

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

I’ve got two books this year. The first is Deadbeat, which is my neo-noir book about a deadbeat dad that tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter through armed robbery.

Then you’ve got Jacob - which is a collection of my webcomic. It’s a serial killer story but it’s told from the point of view of the victims. So each story has a different cast of characters as they come into contact with our killer. If you’re a fan of Mindhunter or Hannibal I think you’ll dig it.

What do you love about creating comics?

Seeing the pages come in. There’s nothing better than waking up to an inbox filled with new art. Seeing how all these hyper talented artists interpret my dumb ideas. You almost get to become an audience for your own work. Maybe that sounds a little egocentric but hey you don’t get into this gig without a little ego.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

I’m not sure about most challenging but I really don’t like pitching books. You’ve got all these cool ideas and you’ve just got to boil it down to the basics. You gotta kill a lot of darlings when pitching which is never fun.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

I like talking shop. A lot of people at cons want to make comics themselves they just don’t know where to start so if I can give them a little advice and get them started that’s always neat.

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

My standard answer to this is Black Mask’s The Dregs - a weirdo hobo noir cannibalistic crime book as awesome as it is bonkers.

But as far as stuff you can actually pick up at the con there’s Andy Bloor and Mo Ali’s Midnight Man. I’ve not had a chance to read it yet but I do love me some surrealist superhero comics. I’ll definitely be picking up a copy for myself.

You can find Jed online at his website and stop by his table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

I'll be launching issue 3 of my retro one-person anthology comic Nick Prolix's Slang Pictorial in which people can read my 1960s-set serial strip The Sheep And The Wolves. I'll also have some prints and badges as well as original art pages for sale.

What do you love about creating comics?

I do every stage of the comics myself, from writing, penciling, inking and lettering each page, and to be honest I love each part but I would say, for me it's all about being able to create a whole world, everything from the character design to the backgrounds even down to the fake adverts in the back of the comic that all add to the retro aesthetic.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

To be honest I struggle with time management and maintaining the discipline to sit down at the drawing table and not let myself get distracted with social media.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

The absolute best thing is having people come up and say that they've read and enjoyed my comic and ask when the next issue is going to be out. Connecting with readers has been a total and absolute blast, I love it!

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

Gateway City by Russell Mark Olson is a great series that matches classic Franco-Belgian inspired cartooning with a story that mashes together 1920s bootleggers and inter-dimensional space aliens! You can read the webcomic on tapastic and buy the physical issues from the artist himself at True Believers.

You can find Nick online at his website and stop by his table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

With True Believers 2018 fast approaching, we put 5 Questions to John Tucker...

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

Visitors to my table will find a charming selection of my self-published comics and zines, including my 2017 magnum opus “The Taxi” and a selection of my mini comics, including my most recent offering, “Hell”. I‘ll have a few prints and assorted bits and bobs too. I will also be doing custom illustrations all day, come and see me if you want me to draw you a tattoo or a vision of your own murder.

What do you love about creating comics?

I think it’s a satisfyingly broad creative outlet, and a good way to scratch several itches at once; you control every piece of it. And the best thing is, unlike television shows or films, you don’t need anybody’s permission or money to make the damn things. If you’ve got an idea and the attention span to see it through, you can just will it into being. If I send a script to a TV company and they don’t like it, that’s that; if I make a comic and nobody likes it, too late suckers, it already exists. Way too late. I already won.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

It’s definitely a labour-intensive pursuit, and when you’re thirty days deep into something, it can be difficult to reconnect with that original spark that spurred you on in the first place. It usually comes back when you’ve finished, though; when you get to see the finished product, hopefully you remember why it seemed like a good idea in the first place.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

I’ll have to let you know, this will be my first con ever. Please be nice.

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

I’m a big fan of lo-fi, outsider comics - KC Green’s now-defunct Gunshow was a big inspiration when I was starting out; it was perfectly weird and a lot of fun, and you never quite knew what you were going to get. I likely wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t for KC Green. In a similar vein, Branson Reese is doing some great short form work on Twitter.

Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant is another favourite of mine; she draws people so simply but so perfectly, every single line means something. Her two collections, Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside Pops, and her autobiographical mini-comic, Ducks, had a huge impact on me. I learned a lot about the value of regional voice and pacing a comic from her.

You can find John online at his website and stop by his table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

I'll be bringing my ongoing adventure anthology series Flintlock which is set entirely in the 18th Century, the recently released Ragamuffins book that's all about a strange group of individuals who repair time, as well as some other gems of the Time Bomb crown.

What do you love about creating comics?

For me it's about the collaboration, it's great working with talented creators to see stories come to life. The delight at receiving the latest layouts, pencils or finished pages into the email inbox never gets old, and the artists always - always - translate my script better than I ever would have thought. Comics are a unique storytelling medium, there's nothing else quite like them, and it's been incredibly rewarding to be part of the comics community for the last decade or so.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

Well, at the indie level it has to be getting the comics you create out into the wide world so people can read and hopefully enjoy them. I think creating a comic is the easy part - the difficult bit is the distribution. These days I tackle that by using Kickstarter as a pre-order platform and taking advantage of the plethora of comics and pop culture events that now take place across the country, as well having a digital presence on Comixology, DriveThru and the quite wonderful Comichaus. It seems to work for me, but that presents another challenge: maintaining the fine balance between the time needed to book, prepare and attend shows and the creative time needed to create the comics I want to sell at those shows.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

It has to be the people you meet. I've made some great friends over the years who I've met at cons, both fellow creators and comics readers who regularly attend events themselves. There's always something wonderful about collective passions, and the comic con experience is a true realisation of that. It's not about all liking exactly the same thing - where's the fun in that? - but that sense of being with people who understand you, your interests and the enjoyment and excitement that brings. It's great having people come and tell you they enjoyed a comic you produced (or for that matter being comfortable to let you know why they didn't) as having that face to face immediacy of feedback is golden. What's also been a regular buzz over the years is meeting someone interested in creating comics themselves, and being so inspired by what they see that they start getting their own work out there too and making that shift from attendee to creator. Seeing that is always brilliant!

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

Comics I have gotten excited about this year include Ghost Island by Joseph Oliviera, Sarah Millman's NPC Tea and Cognition by Ken Reynolds but must-reads would also include anything from Accent UK, who produce consistently readable and entertaining comics. I'd also give a shout-out to Jimmy Furlong's Shit Flingers anthology which deserves much more attention as it really is quite wonderful. I could reel off twenty or thirty more quite easily - all from the UK indie stable and all brilliant examples of what great comics are being created these days.

You can find Steve online at his website and stop by his table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

Cool stuff, I hope! I'll be bringing Midwinter, a frosty post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure, and Hex Loader, my surreal sort-of horror comic in which a reclusive 1980s games designer finds a way to use computer code to cast magic with bizarre results. There's a taking wombat. If all goes well, then issue 3 of Hex Loader will be making its convention debut at OK True Believers! If I can make the space, I'll probably bring along some of my other stuff too - my retro gaming Speccy Nation books, and a children's time travel novel. Something for everyone!

What do you love about creating comics?

My favorite part of the process is that delicious waiting period, after I've sent a script off to the artist and I get the first email back with attachments. I'm fairly hands-off when it comes to art direction - I don't like being too dictatorial in terms of how characters should look, or how to lay out the panels, so I like to be surprised - usually pleasantly! - when those first sketches and scans come back and I get to see how the artist has interpreted what I wrote. Sometimes it's exactly what I imagined, and that's amazing. Sometimes it's something I never would have thought to do, and that's even better. Comics are a collaborative media, and I never stop being thrilled at seeing someone else taking something I've written and adding their spin to it.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

There's that bit, after you've had the flash of inspiration but before it's all done, when you have to just sit down and graft at turning those wisps of an idea into a functioning story with interesting characters. I'm not sure I'd call it "challenging" but that's the part where you just have to knuckle down and chip away at it until it feels right. Not so much the actual writing part - I like that bit, as you can just open the floodgates and let it all out. It's the fumbling around for that one connection or twist that reveals the story inside the idea. It can sometimes feel a lot like trying to find a single peanut in a pitch black room, while wearing oven gloves. Of course, when you find the peanut, and it turns out to be delicious, it's all worth it. Mmmm. Metaphorical peanuts.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

As a visitor, I'm always like a kid in a sweet shop when it comes to small press stuff. I find it massively inspiring to see just how many creators are out there, producing such an amazing range of work across loads of genres just for the love of it. It's a business, but also a hobby. Some people spend hours sitting on a riverbank trying to catch fish. Some people lock themselves in the spare room and write or draw until their eyes fall out. It's such a vibrant niche. From behind the table, it's the sense of community. The UK has a really lovely indie scene, so many people putting their thoughts and ideas out there and hoping others like it. Regardless of whether I'm there as a creator or a punter, I always come back from a convention feeling inspired and energised, and eager to crack on with something new.

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

God, there are so many. Mark Penman's Eimurian Tales is great - chunky standalone books set in a shared fantasy world that feels really real and alive. Imaginary Gumbo is a wonderful all-ages book from Abby and Dave at Dumpy Little Robot, just bursting with ideas and a lovely sense of being a little kid. Frisson Comics up in Liverpool just released The Trade, a down-to-earth horror story that is sweet, emotionally powerful and absolutely stomach-churning. Quite an impressive feat. Killing Moon from Pigdog Press is an ongoing fantasy saga that just keeps building. There are loads. Apologies to anyone I didn't mention!

You can find Dan online at his website and stop by his table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

People will find my latest book, Stuff and Stuff, a fun anthology with a whole load of different comics and comic strips as well as my Blind Bags for only £5 with well over £20 worth of comics and goodies.

What do you love about creating comics?

I love the drawing process of making comics, coming up with fun packed adventures. I also love holding the finished book in my hands, knowing I put a whole lot of sweat, love and tears into it.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

I find writing the most challenging…that and colouring…and drawing…But seriously, writing for me is the hardest, and the most time consuming (if I want it to be any good!!).

What do you love about being at a comic con?

I love comic cons, as it gives me the chance to talk to readers and like minded creators and to pick their brains and find out what they’re working on. I love discovering new books and creators to follow (obviously not LITERALLY)

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

Their next purchase! …I have a great range of books, prints and merchandise featuring my different characters. My books range from 100-page graphic novels to small hand-made zines, so hopefully there’s something for all tastes and budgets.

What do you love about creating comics?

Telling stories visually and considering the design from panel to page to object. When I first read the finished book is the best moment because I learn what worked and what I want to improve, but still celebrating having created something new.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

The time! Comics take a lot of work, so even for quick ideas, there’s quite a bit of commitment involved.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

It’s all about being out there and having people find my work. As an illustrator, much of my work is done in my studio, alone, so seeing the results of that effort is awesome. It’s also great to meet other creators and friendly faces from tabling around the country.

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

Luke Pearson’s Hilda series is always great and I’m excited for the Netflix series. I really enjoy Rachael Smith’s work, too, so I’d recommend her deluxe edition of ‘Wired Up Wrong’, even though I haven’t got it yet!

You can find Alex online at his website and stop by his table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

I’ll mostly be concentrating on selling the last few copies of Brain Shoodles; an autobiographical mental health zine. I’ll also have original art prints, stickers and maybe even some badges. Oh and if anyone fancies a shoodles commission I’ll be doing those too.

What do you love about creating comics?

I love being able to get all the jumbled mess out of my head and onto a page. It doesn’t even have to be a page anyone will ever see but there’s something cathartic about it. I’d recommend it to anyone whether or not they think they can draw.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

Actually doing it! I use an awful lot of energy just getting through a normal day. Yay, depression… So when I get home from work I’m more often than not way too tired to do much of anything.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

My favourite thing is hearing the different ways people see Shoodle. I’ve heard it compared to a cloud, emoji, marshmallow and toast. The one thing I’ll always be most appreciative of and will never get used to is when people who’ve read it tell me how they relate to it. i don’t think i’ve got through a con without someone making me cry - in a good way! It’s also always wonderful to catch up with all the creators, finding out what projects people are working on and all the comics gossip.

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

Anything by Neil Slorance or Rachael Smith. Neil’s Modern Slorance are an absolute delights. Rachael, well she’s just damn right brilliant. Wired Up Wrong is an amazing comic but you can’t go wrong with any of her books. I also really enjoy Mike Medaglia’s mini comics. Oh and Rozi Hathaway has such a beautiful way of conveying emotion, Self Care and Vegetables is wonderful, as is Cosmos (and Njalla, and Ø…) And a book that made me cry with recognition as I read it is Worry Wart by Dani M. Abram. I can’t wait for her next one.

You can find Emily online at her website and stop by her table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

People will find my comic called Worry Wart, an auto-biographical comic about anxiety! I started this comic on my personal blog years ago, and after receiving messages from all over the world, I decided to collect it all together, along with the original blog posts, as a beautiful little book that I am so proud of! It's a hefty 56 full colour pages, A5, the best printing I could afford and I hope people come and ask me about it!

What do you love about creating comics?

I am an animator by day, so I particularly love that the drawings stay still!

To answer the question seriously though, I started drawing Worry Wart because I was trapped in a cycle of fear of normal everyday situations. Drawing the situations actually helped remove me from them and in the longer term, replaced the memories of the fear. I hope that makes sense! I love creating comics because I love reading comics. They've been there for me through thick and thin.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

Like with all my creative endevours, the part I find most challenging isn't the making of them, but the constant battle with my inner critic! I tried Perfect, and that never got finished. I tried Short and that never got finished. I tried Epic and that never got finished! Are you spotting a pattern!? When I needed to draw for my own sanity, all that sank away because it was just for me. Worry Wart is my favourite body of work because it came from the heart (no stupid brain getting in the way!) and it got finished ^-^

What do you love about being at a comic con?

The people! Being surrounded by creative people all making things is my jam on toast. It is my greatest inspiration. A good comic con can put me back on track for the rest of the year. I choose my cons really carefully now. I want to experience an atmosphere that is alive with excitement about comics and art and expression. I tend to stay away from the big giant conventions.

Also I love the table snacks!

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

Dungeon Fun by Neil Slorance is such a fun and wacky Saturday-morning-cartoon of a comic. I love it. I didn't even discover it myself, my friends ambushed me with it, knowing I would adore it! It's so funny and sweet and strong. I really laughed out loud reading it. It's wonderful! And being an animator I especially appreciate it's style and tone and poses. Neil can draw man. *sighs*

Brain Shoodles by Emily B. Owen is a heartbreaking, heart-putting-back-together little zine about mental health and how to cope in the modern world. It's so real. Like, obvs I'm going to say it's amazing because she's my table buddy, but it's also amazing because she's human and I'm human and we're all human and we're all just trying our best, ok?

Literally Everything Rachael Smith makes. Literally anything and everything. Just go to her table, close your eyes, pick up a book, pay the gurl, and walk away. Congratulations, you've just picked up your new favourite comic. Literally.

There's so many others! I could write a dissertation. I love writing dissertations. Anyway, come to my table and ask me what else! And recommend me a book too! I like cartoony, zany, silly, sweet and funny comics please.

You can find Dani online at her website and stop by her table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

Having started making independent comics some 15 years ago with themed anthologies and one shots AccentUK are now focussing on ongoing series and at the moment have 4 issues of the 7 issue Stephenson’s Robot (an alternate history steampunk tale) and 8 issues of WesterNoir (which can be best described as ‘They Lives meets Deadwood’) own the table, we’ve even collected the first 4 in a Volume 1 TPB. We will have an assortment of other comics on the table too, Colin Mathieson’s Moments of Adventure and some Blessed/Cursed one shots about people with abilities who learn that they have to take the rough with the smooth.

What do you love about creating comics?

What I love about creating comics is exactly that. Creating Comics. It is effectively a creative itch that needs to be scratched but taken from the perspective of running a small business. This ‘hobby’ needs to work out financially. Our books need to find a receptive audience and sell in numbers that allow us to pay artists etc and make enough to pay for events and fund the next issue. It’s tough but feedback and customers that turn up at our table looking for the new books make it all worthwhile.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

Marketting. Finding reviewers who actually do review your books. This is like any other business and if nobody knows you exist or what you are producing then they will most likely pass you by. Getting a presence online is a real challenge and takes up a lot of time. Time that I, rightly or wrongly, tend to invest in all the other parts of the business of making comics.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

I love getting feedback from customers. There’s nothing better than having a discussion with somebody about our work. Knowing that they don’t just buy the books but are also keenly interested in the story and where it’s going. Comic Cons are also a great opportunity to network with other creators, catch up with what they are doing and buy their latest books. I buy very few mainstream comics these days, probably only 2 titles a month. I used to buy about 20. Most of my purchases these days are from my competitors, and it’s an interesting observation that the independent comic scene is a very supportive one. …

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

That’s a tough one. There’s a lot of quality work out there and a lot that isn’t as polished but is oozing with passion. If I had to list a few they would be:-

Cognition (it has a steam powered robot in it and is well written, drawn and pulled together. What’s not to like).

The Kill Screen (this is something so unlike anything I’d write myself, or even think of. Again, well written and produced).

Skies of Fire (this is one I feel is more like something I could have written, or attempted to, and wish I had).

Flintlock (An anthology comic of Lady heroes in alternate history tales. I’m hoping their stories come together in some way).

NPC (this is something that was recommended to me and my first ever Kickstarter purchase … the first of many I think).

You can find Dave online at the AccentUK website and stop by his table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

I'll be there selling copies of pretty much every book that I have my name to!

2018 is turning out to be a sort of signing tour of the release of my latest book Porcelain : Ivory Tower, so I'll be handing out that to whoever breathes and has eyes! I'm hoping to have some new prints ready by True Believers too!

Also I tend to do a personalised sketch inside all of my Improper Books if people would like them and sometimes even if they don't! Also I'll be flying the Batgirl flag high and proud so expect me to have some Batgirl issues on sale and if I have time I'll take on the odd commission!

What do you love about creating comics?

I find it hard to pick just one side that I really like so I might have to claim a few! I love the design and concept stage so much, I love the storytelling and the problem solving and I really love the collaboration you have with the whole team when working on a book. You work together pretty intensely then you have this hard won evidence to show for it at the end. That's sort of cheating I guess as all of that basically IS making comics but those moments of design and problem solving that is just for the story, they really get my creative juices going.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

I tend to put a lot of time and brain power into my layouts. That's where, for me, It gets a lot of energy and effort put into it. In some ways it can help make things smoother later when working on actual pages, I usually set my perspective points there and the general flow of the page gets worked out, I usually follow it quite closely on the full size page.

Though there are somethings that every artists struggles with in drawing, for some it's horses but for me its bikes! Please don't write bikes into my books! I wont be happy. Also spiral staircases. I've been dealt far too many of them and they make me nearly cry every time.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

From the artist's side of the table I love meeting the readers, old and new. Also chatting with people who have read my work and really get it, or notice the little easter eggs I tend to throw into the background, things like that. Also to meet fellow artists and writers, seeing how they are getting on and reassuring each other things will be ok!

From the other side of the table I love finding some new books that you may never see if you just go into a shop. And the chance to get a little insight behind the book from the creator.

The atmosphere of comic cons and especially British cons are always so supportive and pleasant to be at, its always a pleasure to be at comic con on either side of the table. It's usually a good mix of downright good people.

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

I'd recommend anyone pick up Geis & Geis 2 by Alexis Deacon from NoBrow. A book I dearly wish I could have drawn myself. Everything about that book is just a treat for the eyes. It's a sort of long form fairy tail that hits all the typical fantasy fans buttons and still gives something fresh. Treat yourself and get on it if you haven't yet.

Also my good friend Tony Esmond will attending True Believers this year and I believe he is launching the Awesome Comics Podcast Anthology which he has his own story featured in. I'll be getting a copy myself so I'd highly recommend that.

You can find Christian online at his website and stop by his table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

Well...... interesting you should ask that. We will be launching the new anthology from the caverns of The Awesome Comics Podcast. Us three hosts along with the mighty Mr Nick Prolix will be handling a chapter each. We will start sharing more in the next few months but I am literally bursting (yes...like that) with excitement for this project. All the stories are a little out there and I guarantee we won't let you down. It's been a long-time plan for us to release something together and finally we took the plunge. TB is the perfect place to launch as we have had a blast there in years gone by.

Here's a little something you can expect from me and Mr Prolix.

We'll also have some of our other small press offerings. I'm currently working on a couple of other projects at the moment that I'm hoping will be ready around that time too.

What do you love about comics?

Wow. The big question. The answer is just comics. Comics, comics, comics. I have loved them for as long as I can remember. I've never stopped. I read them every single day. I grew up in the 70s and early 80s and this is what we did as kids. we read comics. My best friend from secondary school is still my best friend and we bonded because of our mutual love of comics. I'm an atheist but if I had to choose a religion it would be comics. (Although I would probably involve Caroline Munro somewhere in that mix!)

What frustrates you about comics?

Hahahahahahahaha. I try and keep positive, it's a bit of a policy of us on the pod. My frustrations rarely lay with the actual comics themselves. But more with the people who say they 'Love Comics' but actually just watch the movies, meet poo list celebrities, collect the funkos or dress up. If some of those people actually read a couple of great comics they'd be hooked and we would be getting much better numbers.

If anyone knows any hitmen then please contact me at the usual mailbox?

What do you love about being at a Comic Con?

Easy, Andrew Lee Potts. Has he started doing any conventions? I would like to lick his face.

Everyone says they 'love the community' but personally I wouldn't be upset if a nuclear bomb went off at San Diego. Have you smelt some of those people?

But seriously.... Me, Vince and Dan go home exhausted. We joke about it on pretty much every convention round-up. We literally laugh for the whole time. I love meeting fans and creators. Chatting about comics (and usually boobs as well). I also love a back issue. I even stop for a coffee on the way home because I am too excited and need to crack open a comic to read! The social/heavy drinking scene afterwards is also fun (hashtag smiley face).

What comic would you recommend people read?

How many am I allowed? At the moment Punisher: The Platoon from Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov. This is exactly the kind of comic I love. The writing and art are pure bloody perfection.

The Porcelain series from Benjamin Read and Christian Wildgoose. This is a three part graphic novel series that will break your heart.

Dalston Monsterzz by Dilraj Mann. Published by the excellent Nobrow. This book is beautifully fantastic as well as gritty. Highly recommended.

And anything by Stuart McCune. They have an abstract and cerebral quality that really hits the spot with me at the moment. We are missing this intelligence in a lot of the other snarky/hip products out there that it's a refreshing read every time.

The comics scene is in my humble opinion the best it has ever been at the moment across the board. Just dip your toe in.

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

On my table there will be three packs of my mini comics from £5, £7, £10 Each pack has postcards and sketch book collections. Collecting my work over the past five years. My Latest short story "The Trelenburg Gate" will be on sale for the first time.

What do you love about creating comics?

I love the freedom - I've worked on film and animation which involve large numbers of people and it can be hard to feel you had any impact on the final result.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

The freedom is the hardest part. As a lone creator you can get lost down creative cul de sacs. I work with an editor now that keeps my ideas from drifting. I'm also a member of a group called the "Paper Cavemen". We skype once a month and check on each others production. The goal and the sense of feeding back to an understanding audience, is invaluable.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

The networking is a must. And being inspired by the high standards that are coming out of small press just now. Plus - bargains!!

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

The best two comics I read this year were - the wordless "The Longest Day of the Future" by Lucas Varrela printed by Fantagraphic Books. And "Ancestor" a Black Mirror style tech horror that goes really cosmic. That's by the duo that had a hand in the re-imagined Prophet series; Malachi Ward and Matt Sheean.

You can find Andy online at the Batch-25 website and stop by his table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

You can find Susie online at her website and stop by her table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

With True Believers 2018 fast approaching, we put 5 Questions to Jay, Dave & Liam; the team behind King Legacy...

What will people find at your table at True Believers 2018?

For those who have met us before they can expect more of the same; super happy fun times. We are just 3 friends who love all things comics who have just so happened to make an awesome one of our own. And for people who have yet to meet us: good luck...I mean come say hi. You're in for a treat.

What do you love about creating comics?

I love watching an idea grow into a polished product and the steps in between. I'm not a fan of how long it can take - being impatient and all - but watching something that's had a lot of thought and process popped into it is really amazing.

What part of creating comics do you find the most challenging?

I guess the self advertising. We don't have an online store. We don't really go too far out of the way to shout about where to get an issue. We are still very new to it so its all a learning curve. The only place you can really grab copies is at cons that we go to. Or if you're lucky enough to know us. The plan is to start kicking and screaming when issue 2 arrives.

What do you love about being at a comic con?

I do love getting feedback from those who have read King. And I love talking to people about the comic too. But I love inspiring kids to create their own stuff. There is a kid that sticks out in my mind who was asking all the right questions and was really taking what we were saying in. Not saying we are experts, far from it to be honest, but we told him how we went about doing it and how it worked for us.

What comic - other than your own - would you recommend people read?

Ah man that's a toughie.

Jay: I'm currently reading, and loving, Batman, Detective Comics, Black Monday Murders and Walking Dead. I absolutely love Hellboy (need to catch back up now it has ended) and Wytches (Volume 2 is coming). Oh and the new 52 run on Swamp Thing and Animal Man.

Dave: I recently picked up Spiderman/Deadpool - Isn't it Bromantic (mainly because Ed Mcguinness was on art duties) and I'm loving Southern Bastards and Walking Dead as an ongoing read. I've also finished Hellboy - The Death Card, a great end to an amazing character!

Liam: I've said it before and I'll say it again; Invincible all the way. I am also a fan of the Flash too. Both are a lot of fun.

You can find The King Legacy Team online at their website and stop by their table at True Believers 2018 and say "Hello".

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